Earth's History Review

Valcouroceras is a New York State index fossil. Which mountain-building event occurred in New York State during the time when Valcouroceras was living in oceans covering parts of New York State?

• Alleghenian orogeny
• Acadian orogeny
• Taconian Orogeny
• Grenville orogeny

Which group of organisms has the shortest record of life on Earth?

• Eurypterids
• Graptolites
• birds
• placoderm fish

One similarity between uranium-238 and carbon-14 is that both

• decay at predictable rates
• Have the same half-life
• Are normally found in large quantities in living matter
• Are found in granite

Which radioactive isotope (version of an element) is most often used when determining the age of fossil bones found in sediments deposited during the Holocene Epoch?

• Carbon-14
• Potassium-40
• Uranium-238
• Rubidium-87

Many scientists infer that one cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs and ammonoids that occured approximately 65.5 million years ago was

• tectonic plate subduction of most of the continents
• an asteroid impact that resulted in climate change
• a disease spreading among many groups of organisms
• severe damage produced by worldwide earthquakes

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Orgamisms that later became good index fossils lived over a

• wide geographic area and existed for a long geologic time
• wide geographic area and existed for a short geologic time
• limited geographic area and existed for a long geoligic time
• limited geograophic area and existed for a short geologic time

During which period in geologic history did the uplifting of the Adirondack Mountains begin?

• Quaternary
• Cretaceous
• Triassic
• Cambrian

What is the approximate percentage of geologic time that humans have existed on Earth since its origin?

• less than 1%
• 0.018
• 0.118
• more than 25%

During which geologic time period did the earliest reptiles and great coal-forming forests exist?

• Devonian
• Quaternary
• Mississippian
• Pensylvannian

Which geologic event occured in New York State at the end of the Triassic Period?

• domelike uplift of the Adirondack region
• formation of the Catskill delta
• retreat of the last continental ice
• intrusion of the Palisades sill